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he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did do you for the money? >> i offered advice. my advice as a historian when they walked in and said we are making loans to people with no credit history. >> historians at that point crying out how much hundreds of thousands? how do i get a gig like that? the his storian line also led to this attack ad in florida by mitt romney against mr. gingrich. >> while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the agency that helped create the crisis. >> i offered advice, my advice as a historian. >> a historian? really? >> the micro context of this release tonight is that mr. gingrich seems to be attempting to nip this criticism in the bud by having his former consulting company release th
he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did do you for the money? >> i offered advice. my advice as a historian when they walked in and said we are making loans to people with no credit history. >> historians at that point...
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he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did do you for the money? >> i offered advice. my advice as a historian when they walked in and said we are making loans to people with no credit history. >> historians at that point crying out how much hundreds of thousands? how do i get a gig like that? the his storian line also led to this attack ad in florida by mitt romney against mr. gingrich. >> while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the agency that helped create the crisis. >> i offered advice, my advice as a historian. >> a historian? really? >> the micro context of this release tonight is that mr. gingrich seems to be attempting to nip this criticism in the bud by having his former consulting company release th
he was under contract with freddie mac for roughly six years. mr. gingrich has done himself nol favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, more paid as a historian. >> your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did do you for the money? >> i offered advice. my advice as a historian when they walked in and said we are making loans to people with no credit history. >> historians at that point...
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. >>> newt gingrich has released the contract he entered into with freddie mac. he'll be joining us in just a moment to tell us exactly what has been released tonight and whether or not the story come ports with newt gingrich's previous explanations of exactly how he earned that money from freddie mac. conservatives have developed a critique of what happened during the financial meltdown during the bush presidency, plays down the importance of wall street and plays up the importance of freddie mac and fannie mae and other things promoting home ownership. so it's made public that he took consulting fees while working for a home mortgage agency. mr. gingrich has done himself no favors in responding to that criticism when his first instinct was to say he wasn't paid for lobbying or consulting, he was more paid pas a historia. >> your firm was paid $300,000 in 2006 by freddie mac. what did you do with that money? >> my life as a historian was when he came up and said. >> how many hundreds of thousands? how do i get a gig like that. the historian line also led to this
. >>> newt gingrich has released the contract he entered into with freddie mac. he'll be joining us in just a moment to tell us exactly what has been released tonight and whether or not the story come ports with newt gingrich's previous explanations of exactly how he earned that money from freddie mac. conservatives have developed a critique of what happened during the financial meltdown during the bush presidency, plays down the importance of wall street and plays up the importance of...
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he's getting paid by freddie mac. they gave him a lot of rhetoric about being paid by freddie, but in 2012, a deal will happen that freddie won't want. >> this was in 2006, a year of mid-terms just before the democrats. >> i thought they only paid him for that brief period. >> the commercial that romney took out right now is saying it it paid him $1.7 million. if you go 25 grand a month, my math is telling me it's a little over six years, isn't it? >> that couldn't work. i think the contract was before that. i'm pretty sure from what i've read, the contract was during the period of republican control. gingrich is forced out of the house by his unsuccessful speaker -- >> is this a problem for gingrich, in your opinion? >> it would be by any normal standard and it will be, i think, in november. but again, gingrich has got behind him people that are so angry that all they want is that you be angry. in some ways the more outrageous the conduct the better they feel because that shows that your anger is what counts, and i b
he's getting paid by freddie mac. they gave him a lot of rhetoric about being paid by freddie, but in 2012, a deal will happen that freddie won't want. >> this was in 2006, a year of mid-terms just before the democrats. >> i thought they only paid him for that brief period. >> the commercial that romney took out right now is saying it it paid him $1.7 million. if you go 25 grand a month, my math is telling me it's a little over six years, isn't it? >> that couldn't work....
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it's not new. >> it wasn't freddie mac, but it wasn't unrelated. but maybe with a little bit of help, people can get a little bit of an education on some of these things. and the good news is, at least the decisions are going to be made more on debates than on the air pollution and the ads running all over florida. >> why do you say that? people are fearful of the super pac. >> i'm not saying they are not relevant. we need a constitutional amendment that says that. it is perverting our process in a lot of ways. but fortunately, sometimes it's good to look at the glass half full. the spine of this republican contest so far has been debates more than ads. the ads have not really made as big a difference as people think. it's not well, if only rick perry had money to go on tv, he would still be in. he had plenty of money. he's out of it because he was a dufuss at the debates. >> the 30 million jobs tour, a culture of investment through revisions in the tax code and trade policy. i don't e know what all the laws should be, and i could be wrong about 50
it's not new. >> it wasn't freddie mac, but it wasn't unrelated. but maybe with a little bit of help, people can get a little bit of an education on some of these things. and the good news is, at least the decisions are going to be made more on debates than on the air pollution and the ads running all over florida. >> why do you say that? people are fearful of the super pac. >> i'm not saying they are not relevant. we need a constitutional amendment that says that. it is...
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mac. >> well, i think you know that fannie mae and freddie mac were a big part of why we have the housing crisis in the nation that we have. we've had this discussion before. speaker gingrich was hired by freddie mac to promote them, to influence other people throughout washington, encouraging them to -- not to dismantle these two entities. i think that was an enormous mistake. we should have had a whistle-blower and not a horn tooter. he should have stood up, saying this is a disaster, a crisis. he should have been telling the american people that these entities were creating a housing bubble that would have caused a collapse. >> he's been attacking me inaccurately and he knows it. the contract released from freddie mac said i would do no lobbying, none. we began digging in because i had enough of this. we discovered to our shock, governor romney made $1 million off of selling some of the freddie mac and fannie mae stocks. he has an investment in goldman sachs which is today foreclosing on floridaens. maybe his fear of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of households th
mac. >> well, i think you know that fannie mae and freddie mac were a big part of why we have the housing crisis in the nation that we have. we've had this discussion before. speaker gingrich was hired by freddie mac to promote them, to influence other people throughout washington, encouraging them to -- not to dismantle these two entities. i think that was an enormous mistake. we should have had a whistle-blower and not a horn tooter. he should have stood up, saying this is a disaster, a...
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lobbyists at freddie mac. i don't think we can possibly retake the white house if the person who's leading our party is the person who was working for the chief lobbyist of freddie mac. freddie mac was paying speaker gingrich $600,000 at the same time freddie mac was costing the people of florida millions upon millions of dollars. >> now, wait a second. he just went on and on and on, making a whole series of aelss. first of all, he may have been a good financier, he's a terrible historian. the fact is, the vote object ethics committee was in january of 1997. i asked the republicans to vote yes, because we had to get it behind us. the democrats had filed 84 ethics charges for a simple reason. we had taken control of the house after 40 years and they were very bitter. and the fact is, on every single ethics charge with substance that was dismissed in the end, the only thing we did wrong, we had one lawyer written by letters -- i mean, written one letter, and the one letter was in error. i didn't pay a fine. i pa
lobbyists at freddie mac. i don't think we can possibly retake the white house if the person who's leading our party is the person who was working for the chief lobbyist of freddie mac. freddie mac was paying speaker gingrich $600,000 at the same time freddie mac was costing the people of florida millions upon millions of dollars. >> now, wait a second. he just went on and on and on, making a whole series of aelss. first of all, he may have been a good financier, he's a terrible...
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according to the associated press, he did have investments in fannie mae and freddie mac. they were not blind trusts. >> chris, this is the big issue. it's kind of puzzling. he's had many years to think about this. mitt romney and his campaign can't figure out how he should talk about his own wealth, whether it's his taxes. he should just get up there and say, listen, i've done well. i have a gazillion dollars. i don't even know how many. i have people who manage these funds for me. i don't know what goes on. if you tell me there's freddie mac money in there, i'm going to tell them to get rid of it. i don't want it anymore. that's how he should handle this. every time we get to this issue, he somehow muffs it. it's somehow perplexing. >> thank you, david. thank you, susan. >>> up next, newt gingrich picks up the endorsement of duke cunningham, who's doing time for bribery. i guess you get endorsements where you can get them. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> back to "hardball." now to the side show. first up, talk about extra baggage. newt gingrich has clinched
according to the associated press, he did have investments in fannie mae and freddie mac. they were not blind trusts. >> chris, this is the big issue. it's kind of puzzling. he's had many years to think about this. mitt romney and his campaign can't figure out how he should talk about his own wealth, whether it's his taxes. he should just get up there and say, listen, i've done well. i have a gazillion dollars. i don't even know how many. i have people who manage these funds for me. i...
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if you're telling me there's freddie mac money, i will tell them to get rid of it. that's how he should handle this. but every time we get to this issue, he muffs it. it's kind of perplexing. >> last word, susan. why can't he talk about his money? >> because he's setting himself up to be the poster child for the 1% in a general election. that's why. >> he's doing a good job. thank you. up next, newt gingrich pix up the jailhouse endorsement of duke cunningham. i guess you get endorsements where you can get them. you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. hey, aren't you supposed to be following that fidelity green line? well, yeah, but it keeps leading me back to my old office. i think it might be broken. or maybe it's trying to tell you something. yeah, but what could it be try-- oh, i left my 401(k) at my old job. and i left a jacket on the back of my door. but i think the line's talking about my 401(k). leave a 401(k) behind? roll it over with a company that's helping more people reach retirement than anyone else. call or come in for a free portfolio review today. when
if you're telling me there's freddie mac money, i will tell them to get rid of it. that's how he should handle this. but every time we get to this issue, he muffs it. it's kind of perplexing. >> last word, susan. why can't he talk about his money? >> because he's setting himself up to be the poster child for the 1% in a general election. that's why. >> he's doing a good job. thank you. up next, newt gingrich pix up the jailhouse endorsement of duke cunningham. i guess you get...
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it's very -- half of it at least was freddie mac. you got the feeling that when romney turned to newt and said, you know what's in your -- that he didn't really know what was in his -- >> right, it was remarkable that gingrich would lead with that and not have already vetted and covered what the obvious response would be. and he didn't even have a response. he just sort of glouerred at him and went along. i thought gingrich seemed not particularly energetic. he really got his butt kicked all over the place tonight. and i was surprised by that because he obviously had a lot to lose because the polling shows romney trending upwards and newt regressing to the mean of what his polling has been and also because his best shot at the nomination, i think, probably his only shot, was to parlay the momentum off of south carolina into a big win in florida. i thought -- it was almost like he didn't show up tonight. >> john, newt gingrich has gotten most of his momentum out of debates. what did he get out of this debate tonight and what did he ne
it's very -- half of it at least was freddie mac. you got the feeling that when romney turned to newt and said, you know what's in your -- that he didn't really know what was in his -- >> right, it was remarkable that gingrich would lead with that and not have already vetted and covered what the obvious response would be. and he didn't even have a response. he just sort of glouerred at him and went along. i thought gingrich seemed not particularly energetic. he really got his butt kicked...
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we discovered to our shock that governor romney owns shares of fannie mae and freddie mac. governor romney made a million dollars off of selling some of that. >> first of all, my investments are not made by me. my investments for the last ten years have been by a blind trust managed by a trustee. there are bonds that they have held through mutual funds. and mr. speaker, i know that sounds like an enormous revolution, but have you checked your own investments? you also have investments in your mutual funds that invest in fannie and freddie mac. >> right. >> susan, that was one of the great, i assume, a lot of this stuff is set up ahead of time. but what a resounding punch that was to the jaw. >> it showed how well prepared mitt romney was in terms of opposition research and how newt gingrich was not prepared. even with opposition research, his own campaign had done because as soon as that line came out of mitt romney's mouth, we were getting e-mails from the gingrich campaign pointing out that during the 1994 senate race in massachusetts, mitt romney derided the idea that a
we discovered to our shock that governor romney owns shares of fannie mae and freddie mac. governor romney made a million dollars off of selling some of that. >> first of all, my investments are not made by me. my investments for the last ten years have been by a blind trust managed by a trustee. there are bonds that they have held through mutual funds. and mr. speaker, i know that sounds like an enormous revolution, but have you checked your own investments? you also have investments in...
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mac. >> on this stage at a prior debate you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac as a historian. they don't pay people $25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 million. they weren't hiring you as a historian and this contract proves you were not a historian. you were a consultant. it doesn't say you provided historical experience. it said you were as a consultant and you were hired by the chief lobbyist of freddie mac. >> kelly wallace is chief correspondent for i village and dave wiegel. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> how do you think mitt did on the attack? >> some of our ivillage community members described it as an episode of "divorce court." others said it was almost an episode of "the bachelor" and no one would be getting a rose. no question, chris -- >> i love the curl referenc -- references. >> don't you? the question is will it backfire. does it seem like a desperate ploy to go on the attack and bring newt down and does gingrich score some points by trying to seem above it all. we don't have the answer yet. >> and, you kn
mac. >> on this stage at a prior debate you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac as a historian. they don't pay people $25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 million. they weren't hiring you as a historian and this contract proves you were not a historian. you were a consultant. it doesn't say you provided historical experience. it said you were as a consultant and you were hired by the chief lobbyist of freddie mac. >> kelly wallace is chief...
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he was paid a total of 1.6 million dollars for his eight years of work at freddie mac. >>> after last night's debate, voters are comparing this on another key issue, electability. and last night on the ed sew, ed asked barney frank when the conservative right is diluting itself into thinking future gingrich can beat president obama. >> the people who are supporting gingrich are not persuaded by the electability issue because i've seen this on which when you have people who are very angry, very committed, they believe that they represent the majority. and they will tell you that in fact there are as we know millions and millions who don't vote. and the most passionate claim the nonvoters as their supporters. and i guarantee you there are people who believe if they can nominate newt gingrich and they get this absolutely angry conservatism, that a lot of people who don't now speak out will come out and vote and i guess this is in some ways going to be a test because the republican establishment will try to stop him as the democrats tried to stop george mcgovern. tip o'neill lost a primar
he was paid a total of 1.6 million dollars for his eight years of work at freddie mac. >>> after last night's debate, voters are comparing this on another key issue, electability. and last night on the ed sew, ed asked barney frank when the conservative right is diluting itself into thinking future gingrich can beat president obama. >> the people who are supporting gingrich are not persuaded by the electability issue because i've seen this on which when you have people who are...
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your problem in florida is that you worked for freddie mac at a time freddie mac was not doing the right thing for the american people and selling influence in washington at a time we needed people to stand up for the truth in washington. >> romney's leaning on big name supporters, not just here in florida but nationally to help with his attacks. the 1996 republican presidential nominee bob dole, you remember last week, after gingrich saying his former congressional colleague is not suited to be president and that his candidacy actually could hurt the party in state and local races. the 2008 republican presidential nominee, john mccain offered his own criticism to the former speaker. yesterday on "meet the press." >> we had some rather unpleasant experiences with newt gingrich. one of them was the government shutdown in 1995. and bob dole is the one that finally called a halt to it because it was killing us. i mean, the american people rejected the idea of us shutting down the government. my problems with newt have been over earmark spending, billions and billions and billions. when newt
your problem in florida is that you worked for freddie mac at a time freddie mac was not doing the right thing for the american people and selling influence in washington at a time we needed people to stand up for the truth in washington. >> romney's leaning on big name supporters, not just here in florida but nationally to help with his attacks. the 1996 republican presidential nominee bob dole, you remember last week, after gingrich saying his former congressional colleague is not...
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he is getting paid by freddie mac, zero happens that fannie and freddie don't want. >> this contract started on the first day of january, 2006. it was the year that mid-terms obviously before the democrats took over the house in the mid-terms. whether that means anything or not, i don't know. >> when did they stop paying him? i thought they only paid him for brief period. >> the commercial that romney has taken out right now is saying it paid him $1.7 million, so if you go 25 grand a month, my math is telling me a little over six years. isn't it? >> that couldn't work because -- i think that goes -- i think the contract was before that. i'm pretty sure from what i read the contract was during the period of republican control. gingrich is forced out of the house by his -- unsuccessful speaker. >> is this a problem for gingrich, in your opinion? >> it would be by any normal standard and will be, i think, in november. but gingrich has got behind them people who are so angry, that all they want is that you be angry, and some ways more outrageous the conduct the better they feel because t
he is getting paid by freddie mac, zero happens that fannie and freddie don't want. >> this contract started on the first day of january, 2006. it was the year that mid-terms obviously before the democrats took over the house in the mid-terms. whether that means anything or not, i don't know. >> when did they stop paying him? i thought they only paid him for brief period. >> the commercial that romney has taken out right now is saying it paid him $1.7 million, so if you go 25...
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what was he doing at freddie mac because freddie mac figures in very prominently to the fact that people in florida have seen home values go down. >> this is romney's message of the day, they have already had a house-themed event this morning, just over an hour, surrogates will hold a conference call on "gingrich's work as an historian" for the mortgage giant. gingrich, again, denied those lobbying charges on "meet the press." >> wait a second, david. david, you know better than that i was not a lobbyist. i was never a lobbyist. i never did any lobbying. don't try to mix these things up. the fact is i was an adviser strategically. >> a little taste of how he will probably respond to romney tonight. romney is doing his best, debatedly, to neutralize an issue that has weighed on his campaign for about two weeks, whether and when he will release some tax returns. >> i will release my tax returns for 2010, which is the last returns that were completed. i will do that on tuesday of this week. i will also release at the same time an estimate for 2011 tax returns. we just made a mistake in hold
what was he doing at freddie mac because freddie mac figures in very prominently to the fact that people in florida have seen home values go down. >> this is romney's message of the day, they have already had a house-themed event this morning, just over an hour, surrogates will hold a conference call on "gingrich's work as an historian" for the mortgage giant. gingrich, again, denied those lobbying charges on "meet the press." >> wait a second, david. david, you...
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what he was consulting freddie mac on over the course of the time. the romney campaign has been putting up ads throughout the course of the last month and a half, their supporters spending more than $5 million in this state, the romney campaign itself spending millions more. today one of their surrogates, tim pawlenty saying about mitt romney being the nominee, really? >> peter alexander for us in tampa this morning, thank you. the candidates have eight days, that's it, to navigate a state they are going to have to spend more money than south carolina. six times larger than new hampshire, five times more hispanics than iowa. msnbc political analyst richard wolffe and joy-ann reid, great to see you both this morning, we have a lot to talk about, especially on the heels of south carolina. republicans there made it clear who's the most conservative, that is, in their estimation, newt gingrich. who's the most electable, again, newt. if mitt romney's back against the wall in the short-term at least, does he come out firing tonight, does he have any other
what he was consulting freddie mac on over the course of the time. the romney campaign has been putting up ads throughout the course of the last month and a half, their supporters spending more than $5 million in this state, the romney campaign itself spending millions more. today one of their surrogates, tim pawlenty saying about mitt romney being the nominee, really? >> peter alexander for us in tampa this morning, thank you. the candidates have eight days, that's it, to navigate a...
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now, i opposed giving money to fannie mae and freddie mac. i think they should be broken up into four or five much smaller companies, and i've long felt that. and i think that to jump from one to the other is simply wrong. >> i have a question about that. and david, i'll let you follow up. is the strategy there -- i just don't really get it. is the strategy just to pretend that something isn't there and then it won't be? >> no, not at all. actually the strategy there is exactly what newt said, mika, which is this is what he did for freddie mac. he says he wasn't a lobbyist. and i have to say, this whole washington insider/outsider thing is very -- there's argument that you should have some kind of washington experience. you can't just parachute that in there. you have that currently in the white house. >> isn't he calling himself an outsider? >> i think he's an outsider because if you look at all the king's horses and men, they're basically lobbyists -- >> but you said you want an insider. >> he's got inside knowledge. he's an outsider of the
now, i opposed giving money to fannie mae and freddie mac. i think they should be broken up into four or five much smaller companies, and i've long felt that. and i think that to jump from one to the other is simply wrong. >> i have a question about that. and david, i'll let you follow up. is the strategy there -- i just don't really get it. is the strategy just to pretend that something isn't there and then it won't be? >> no, not at all. actually the strategy there is exactly what...
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he's got to defend his record with freddie mac. how much money did he make, how little money did he make? he claims the 35,000. the romney campaign says $1.7 million. >> romney has been spending millions in florida already. attack ads are running. you seeing any fight back from gingrich there in terms of the airways? >> reporter: the pro-gingrich super pac will start putting ads on the air tomorrow. the pro-romney ad will go up on wednesday and carry through next tuesday. rom has a huge advantage in terms of people on the ground and in terms of money. newt gingrich knows that. today he told this small crowd it's going to be people power versus money power. >> thanks for joining us this afternoon. >> reporter: okay. >> don't miss the republican debate on a special edition of "rock center" with brian williams live from tampa at 9:00 eastern on nbc. we'll be right back. get in the ! [ male announcer ] don't have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? and your mood is on its way down. you might not just b
he's got to defend his record with freddie mac. how much money did he make, how little money did he make? he claims the 35,000. the romney campaign says $1.7 million. >> romney has been spending millions in florida already. attack ads are running. you seeing any fight back from gingrich there in terms of the airways? >> reporter: the pro-gingrich super pac will start putting ads on the air tomorrow. the pro-romney ad will go up on wednesday and carry through next tuesday. rom has a...
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. >> you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac a historian. we have congress that came and said you lobbied them with regards to medicare part-d, at the same time your center was taking contributions -- >> you just jumped a long way over here, friend. >> last night newt gingrich would not take the bait but today fired back at romney in an interview with a tampa bay fox station. >> ironically, he owns stock in fannie mae and freddie mac, i wish i had known it during the debate. i would have said you are a stock holder you are getting richer off of freddie mac. >> president bomb is stiobama i putting the final touches on his state of the union address. and romney fighting for his political life in florida is trying get the out ahead of the president. we have our correspondents here with us. welcome both, chris, first to you, the president's state of union speech, he is going on have the largest audience for any campaign style speech, what are the messages that he is trying get out? >> if you ask anyone in the white house and they have been on te
. >> you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac a historian. we have congress that came and said you lobbied them with regards to medicare part-d, at the same time your center was taking contributions -- >> you just jumped a long way over here, friend. >> last night newt gingrich would not take the bait but today fired back at romney in an interview with a tampa bay fox station. >> ironically, he owns stock in fannie mae and freddie mac, i wish i had known it during...
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romney focused his attacks on gingrich's work with freddie mac. gingrich tried to head off the critique by releasing his 2006 contract with the mortgage lender, but that did not stop the two candidates interest tangling over the issue. >> on this stage at a prior debate. you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac for an historian, as an historian. they don't pay people $25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 million. they weren't hiring you as an historian. and this contract proves you were not an historian, you were a consultant. it said you didn't provide historical experience, you were a consultant and you were hired by the chief lobbiest at freddie mac. you were making over $1 million, at the same time people in florida were being hurt by millions of dollars. >> as a businessman, you know that the gross revenue of bain wasn't your personal income. we had the company, the company had three offices, my share annually was about $35,000 a year. and the fact is, i offered strategic advice, largely based on my kno
romney focused his attacks on gingrich's work with freddie mac. gingrich tried to head off the critique by releasing his 2006 contract with the mortgage lender, but that did not stop the two candidates interest tangling over the issue. >> on this stage at a prior debate. you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac for an historian, as an historian. they don't pay people $25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 million. they weren't hiring you as an...
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. >> romney zeroed in on newt gingrich's work with freddie mac. gingrich released his 2006 contract with the mortgage lender before last night's debate. that doesn't stop the two from going at it on the issue. >> on this stage at a prior debate, you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac as an historian. they don't pay people 25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 million. they weren't hiring you as an historian and this contract proves that you were not an historian, you were a consultant. it doesn't say that you provided historical experience, it says you were a consultant. and you were hired by the chief lobbyist. you were making over a million dollars at the same time the people in florida were hurt by millions of dollars. >> you know the gross revenue of bain wasn't your personal income. the company had three offices. the company was being paid. my share annually was about $35,000 a rear. and the fact is i offered strategic advice largely based on my knowledge of history including the history of washington.
. >> romney zeroed in on newt gingrich's work with freddie mac. gingrich released his 2006 contract with the mortgage lender before last night's debate. that doesn't stop the two from going at it on the issue. >> on this stage at a prior debate, you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac as an historian. they don't pay people 25,000 a month for six years as historians. that adds up to about $1.6 million. they weren't hiring you as an historian and this contract proves that you...
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i don't own stock in fannie mae or freddie mac. have you checked your own investments? you also have investments from mutual funds in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> right. >> i was reacting myself. we'll get a full reaction across the board. i cannot wait to hear from our mega panel who made the trip. right here in miami beach. but right now, back to paradise. florida a microcosm for what's happening nationwide. 10% unemployment. 16.5% poverty rate. 21% have no health insurance in this state. and talk about the housing bust. this is ground zero. 171,000 pending foreclosures. this state had been the 7th highest in the nation last year. driving around, we have seen too many foreclosure signs ourselves, not to mention for those not been foreclose eed upon, they find themselves deeply under water. one of out of every two homes in florida the homeowner owns more than the home is worth. nothing prevents more than trapping people in a house they cannot leave to take a new job. we start with richard florida, professor at the university of toronto's rockman school of management.
i don't own stock in fannie mae or freddie mac. have you checked your own investments? you also have investments from mutual funds in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> right. >> i was reacting myself. we'll get a full reaction across the board. i cannot wait to hear from our mega panel who made the trip. right here in miami beach. but right now, back to paradise. florida a microcosm for what's happening nationwide. 10% unemployment. 16.5% poverty rate. 21% have no health insurance in...
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his job was to help freddie mac sell its business model. that is the very thing that republicans don't like about fred yik mac, so it gives romney more ammunition to take against gingrich. in addition, the romney camp is also focusing a lot on his work on health care, right. >> which could be a richer vein. >> all right, john, jeannie, fred, stick around. >>> trivia time. the answer -- william henry harrison and james garfield, because neither lived long enough to deliver any type of annual message. >>> we'll be right back. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. e action. i go to e-trade and tap into the power of revolutionary mobile apps to trade wherever. whenever. life isn't fully experienced sitting idly by. neither is investing. [ birds chirping ] try bayer advanced aspirin. it's not the bayer aspirin you know. it's different. first, it's been re-engineered with micro-particles. second, it enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. the best part? it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast
his job was to help freddie mac sell its business model. that is the very thing that republicans don't like about fred yik mac, so it gives romney more ammunition to take against gingrich. in addition, the romney camp is also focusing a lot on his work on health care, right. >> which could be a richer vein. >> all right, john, jeannie, fred, stick around. >>> trivia time. the answer -- william henry harrison and james garfield, because neither lived long enough to deliver...
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mac going back to the old freddie mac issue. this was romney today. >> he said he had told him that what we were doing was somehow not going to work. i would like to see his report and i would like to see what he told freddie mac. this is a big issue. a washington insider talking about freddie mac, let's see what his report was. >> another thing that was noteworthy in looking at this eugene and chris is the amount of money in television. you're down there, jyou've seen it. the guy at the counter at us air said you're lucky you're leaving. when is this going to be over? i can't turn on my television. look at ad tracker, $4.7 million combined for romney, almost two times as much as gingrich in his super pac, 2.4 million. santorum and his super pac, $1.7 million. ron paul and his pac, 1.4 million and that number is what makes it hard for -- mitt romney is clearly lowering expectations and the clip you just played and i hope to finish first and it's always a hard state for me. that's absolutely true. he's clearly to the ideological
mac going back to the old freddie mac issue. this was romney today. >> he said he had told him that what we were doing was somehow not going to work. i would like to see his report and i would like to see what he told freddie mac. this is a big issue. a washington insider talking about freddie mac, let's see what his report was. >> another thing that was noteworthy in looking at this eugene and chris is the amount of money in television. you're down there, jyou've seen it. the guy...
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i don't own stock in fannie mae or freddie mac. there are bonds that the investor has held through mutual funds. and mr. speaker, i know that sounds like an enormous revelation, but have you checked your own investments? you also have investments from mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> all right. >> so mitt took a problem, something that could appear to be a growing problem for him and turned it right around on newt gingrich. >> yep. >> it was pretty fantastic moment. >> i just turned a disadvantage into an advantage. did you see newt's head jerk when he said have you checked your own investments? >> come on. >> look, you know newt. you worked with newt very closely. so now that he's had these disastrous, i think two debates, now that he is -- will probably lose florida. >> yeah. >> the entire conservative establishment has ganged up on him. so -- >> it's over, right? >> he's right in his wheel house. this is his moment. he's going to come back. he's going to get better immediately, he's going to get sh
i don't own stock in fannie mae or freddie mac. there are bonds that the investor has held through mutual funds. and mr. speaker, i know that sounds like an enormous revelation, but have you checked your own investments? you also have investments from mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> all right. >> so mitt took a problem, something that could appear to be a growing problem for him and turned it right around on newt gingrich. >> yep. >> it...
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he's been working for freddie mac. >> i was not a lobbyist, never a lobbyist, don't try to miff these things up. >> mike allen and ron fornier, good morning, gentlemen. three states, three different winners, tonight's debate will be critical. when mitt romney went on attack during debates three years ago, he wasn't exactly good at it, it didn't help him, so if you're in the room preparing with him right now, what do you say? >> you need to say something clear, that was part of his problem in south carolina, he didn't have definitive answers, so the romney campaign is going to try to push a clear message of romney is the outsider, newt gingrich is the insider. governor romney is a businessman, newt gingrich as a politician lobbyist coming up here in a half an hour, they are going to do a conference call pressing the idea you saw there in the clips that he's a washington insider. gingrich, on the other hand, says that he's going to frame it as bold conservative versus timid massachusetts governor. they say hit back pivot to obama, hit back, pivot to obama. that's what you'll see newt do
he's been working for freddie mac. >> i was not a lobbyist, never a lobbyist, don't try to miff these things up. >> mike allen and ron fornier, good morning, gentlemen. three states, three different winners, tonight's debate will be critical. when mitt romney went on attack during debates three years ago, he wasn't exactly good at it, it didn't help him, so if you're in the room preparing with him right now, what do you say? >> you need to say something clear, that was part of...
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we have seen him step up the attacks, calling him out on freddie mac and fannie mae. he's not that great on the attack. we'll see if he can actual li pull some of these off and if newt gingrich can with stand some of those. >> you make the point that he's not great on the attack. it's so clear that's what's necessary at this point, that he obviously, prevent a factual attack against newt gingrich. >> he really has to show a little bit of chops in these debates to be able to show that he can debate newt gingrich, get some of that limelight back. the one advantage mitt romney has that newt gingrich doesn't, romney's campaign and the super pac supporting him all over the air waves here. they are spending the most money. every ad that you see that's political is either hitting newt gingrich or supporting mitt romney. it's one structure advantage, but that doesn't do everything for you. he has huge leads in south carolina. the romney campaign knows this is his firewall. if gingrich wins, there will be ablot of questions raised about mitt romney. >> jay carney was just aske
we have seen him step up the attacks, calling him out on freddie mac and fannie mae. he's not that great on the attack. we'll see if he can actual li pull some of these off and if newt gingrich can with stand some of those. >> you make the point that he's not great on the attack. it's so clear that's what's necessary at this point, that he obviously, prevent a factual attack against newt gingrich. >> he really has to show a little bit of chops in these debates to be able to show...
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this guy is surrounded by fanny mae and freddie mac stock and he's running an ad. >> dylan ratigan is in the sunshine state. he joins us live. good afternoon. >> nice to see you. >> unemployment in florida has dropped a few points to 9.9%. that still ranked 44th in the country. are things getting any better there now or are those numbers misleading? >> the numbers are misleading as is the gdp number. a lot of the recent decline is as much driven by people who have stopped looking for work, fallen off the unemployment roles. i think the most important thing to understand is at least, for the time being, we have a period of stability which gives us the opportunity to be seize upon the significant debate that's needed on everything that we talk about. most notably, we're going to focus on the extraordinary costs and screwed up interested, misaligned interest in health care which are so acutely felt in south florida which you have an aging population which retires tho this beautiful part of our country. >> jaime morgan chase and the most important banker in the world says the president an
this guy is surrounded by fanny mae and freddie mac stock and he's running an ad. >> dylan ratigan is in the sunshine state. he joins us live. good afternoon. >> nice to see you. >> unemployment in florida has dropped a few points to 9.9%. that still ranked 44th in the country. are things getting any better there now or are those numbers misleading? >> the numbers are misleading as is the gdp number. a lot of the recent decline is as much driven by people who have...
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. >> here's a guy who owns freddie mac and fannie mae stock. he owns a goldman sachs subsidiary which is foreclosing on floridians. we wants to run a campaign where he drowns me in mud with money he raises from people foreclosing floridians. i think he has a lot of gall to start raising the issue. i think we ought to find out, so how much money has he made over the years foreclosing on floridians. >> now aside from the personal attacks and i'm sure we'll hear enough of that in the debate, hasn't the president really changed the conversation? because now we have them talking about foreclosures. we have them talking about the economy. hasn't the president really began making them come back to what the american people are really concerned about? >> well, there's not a lot of times i'd say i'd agree with newt gingrich. mitt romney does have a lot of nerve talking about foreclosures. not only because he invested $500,000 in fannie and freddie, but because a few months ago, remember reverend al he said he didn't think we should do anything to help pe
. >> here's a guy who owns freddie mac and fannie mae stock. he owns a goldman sachs subsidiary which is foreclosing on floridians. we wants to run a campaign where he drowns me in mud with money he raises from people foreclosing floridians. i think he has a lot of gall to start raising the issue. i think we ought to find out, so how much money has he made over the years foreclosing on floridians. >> now aside from the personal attacks and i'm sure we'll hear enough of that in the...
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you also have investments from mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. my trustee loaned money, and they got paid interest, of course, just like if you buy u.s. savings bond. >> "the boston globe" reported that he earned money in a fund he could have reviewed himself. he flubbed a question on his own immigration attacks. >>> you've had an add running saying that speaker gingrich calls spanish, quote, the language of the ghetto. what do you mean by that? >> i doubt that's my ad, but we'll take a look and find out. he signs off in spannic, and he had in. >> i've never voted for a democrat when there was a republican on the ballot. any chance i goat to vote against bill clinton or ted kennedy i too. >> when he voted -- still overall this debate everything went according to plan as far as the romney's campaign is concerned. even all of -- any problems he ran into, they may have ended up helping rick santorum, and any vote for santorum is one less vote for gingrich. momentum clear on the side of romney. >>> our new poll does illustrate a problem romney still
you also have investments from mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. my trustee loaned money, and they got paid interest, of course, just like if you buy u.s. savings bond. >> "the boston globe" reported that he earned money in a fund he could have reviewed himself. he flubbed a question on his own immigration attacks. >>> you've had an add running saying that speaker gingrich calls spanish, quote, the language of the ghetto. what do you mean by...
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i'm live in washington n oin ou daily fix, romney attacked gingrich on freddie mac and fannie mae and accused him of panderring to the space crowd. >> if i had a business executive come to me and said they wanted to spend a billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, i would say you are fired. >> what a debate. i mean, watching them go at each other, gingrich with this debate coach, this was gingrich taking a -- rather, romney with a new debate coach. romney taking on gingrich on the whole freddie mac deal. >> governor romney, in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he made off of how many households that were foreclosed. >> my investments have been in a blind trust, managed by a trustee. have you checked your own investments? you have investments that have mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> now, i think there was fact checking there that mitt romney's mutual fund which was not stock but which invests in freddie and fanny, was not part of the blind trust, you know, there's a lot going back and forth here. but the bottom line is, any time m
i'm live in washington n oin ou daily fix, romney attacked gingrich on freddie mac and fannie mae and accused him of panderring to the space crowd. >> if i had a business executive come to me and said they wanted to spend a billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, i would say you are fired. >> what a debate. i mean, watching them go at each other, gingrich with this debate coach, this was gingrich taking a -- rather, romney with a new debate coach. romney taking on gingrich on...
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discovered to our shock, governor romney owns shares of fannie mae and freddie mac. and made money on selling it. >> i do not own stocks in either company. but there are bonds that the investor holds through mutual funds, and i know that sounds like a big revelation, but have you checked your own investments, you have mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> it was like show time at the apollo, it was an effective moment for mitt romney. >> and if you looked at newt gingrich's body language, he was like the nfl quarterback that was knocked cold by the defensive lineman, yeah, you got me. this was the story for him last night. the rip discussion that john was make ago moment ago, one of to be a bit humble about our ability to project forward in the race, because we have been wrong. >> i have never been wrong in my life, but i heard that other people in the show have been wrong. so i'll give rope there. romney's performance, it was the first time that he was comfortable with his wealth. he was defending himself and saying he was proud of his weal
discovered to our shock, governor romney owns shares of fannie mae and freddie mac. and made money on selling it. >> i do not own stocks in either company. but there are bonds that the investor holds through mutual funds, and i know that sounds like a big revelation, but have you checked your own investments, you have mutual funds that also invest in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> it was like show time at the apollo, it was an effective moment for mitt romney. >> and if you...
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you have investments in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> kelly ann, it's nice to see you. let's talk about this exchange. are you surprised that your candidate seemed to be caught flat footed on that and other topics, especially considering how strong he's been? >> no. i think people sometimes expect the candidates to act like chihuahuas and it's good to be churchill instead. this matter -- went right after the exchange in response to a question from wolf blitzer, congressman paul said this topic doesn't interest me much, i'd rather talk about x, y and z. we're hearing that from voters. but if you look at the negative ads by the mitt romney campaign they are tieing newt gingrich to the housing crisis in florida, so they've put this issue on the table. we have a right to respond. it took him like 19 or 20 debates to have a good one. he had the best last night and has a new debate coach. after a while, if you have enough people whiserring to your ears, it plays off. he feels like he's the front-runner again, but what we like is what's going on on the ground. we like the fact
you have investments in fannie mae and freddie mac. >> kelly ann, it's nice to see you. let's talk about this exchange. are you surprised that your candidate seemed to be caught flat footed on that and other topics, especially considering how strong he's been? >> no. i think people sometimes expect the candidates to act like chihuahuas and it's good to be churchill instead. this matter -- went right after the exchange in response to a question from wolf blitzer, congressman paul...
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your problem in florida is you worked for freddie mac at a time that freddie mac was not doing the right thing for the american people and you're selling influence in washington. >> the lesson the romney campaign learned from iowa, gingrich has an ability to come back from the dead and even with a decisive lead this time romney is taking nothing for granted. >> we were getting just railed on by speaker gingrich and didn't respond well back in south carolina so we decided we'll respond. politics ain't bean bags. we've made our our message is out loud and clear. >> gingrich has also stepped up character attacks. since before the new hampshire primary, he's labeled romney a massachusetts moderate. this weekend moderate apparently became too complementary. >> i am in fact the legitimate heir of the reagan movement, no the some liberal from massachusetts. conservatives will come together and decide they don't want a massachusetts liberal. the only effective vote to stop a massachusetts liberal from becoming our nominee is to vote for newt gingrich. >> and though he's trailing by 15 points in
your problem in florida is you worked for freddie mac at a time that freddie mac was not doing the right thing for the american people and you're selling influence in washington. >> the lesson the romney campaign learned from iowa, gingrich has an ability to come back from the dead and even with a decisive lead this time romney is taking nothing for granted. >> we were getting just railed on by speaker gingrich and didn't respond well back in south carolina so we decided we'll...
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we continue to see that with freddie mac. >> i almost feel like freddie mac having a short position betting on the failure of the american housing market is as offensive as the legalized insider trading in our congress. it's one of those things you wouldn't think would be plausible, and yet there it is. paul, thank you so much. check out paul's work at "the huffington post" and also his newsletter. they are having week-long coverage of auction 2012 in this special series beginning with banks today. oil tomorrow. a five-part series. as you know, we here at the show, returned from florida. it's a prime example of how to purchase an election. the primaries are tomorrow. already more than $24 million has been spent on political ads. mitt romney and the super pacs that support him outspent newt gingrich four to one. and speaking of bought, all the cash has bought romney ar more turn to the mega panel. sam, you have to be offended not just by the money, but by the existence of secret undisclosed money. the fact that we're allowing the use of money that you don't even know whose money it is, it's
we continue to see that with freddie mac. >> i almost feel like freddie mac having a short position betting on the failure of the american housing market is as offensive as the legalized insider trading in our congress. it's one of those things you wouldn't think would be plausible, and yet there it is. paul, thank you so much. check out paul's work at "the huffington post" and also his newsletter. they are having week-long coverage of auction 2012 in this special series...
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mac. >> i would like to see what he sold freddie mac. we have washington insiders talking about freddie mac, what he said, what advise he gave them. >> nbc's craig melvin joins us live from columbia, south carolina. it's not raining anymore, craig. but you had a lot of people concerned about the turnout related to the showers. we heard a short time ago there's a tornado warning in effect. what impact is that having, if any on the vote today? >> the tornado watch was in effect for some of the midland counties. that's a center part of south carolina here. does not appear to be having a great deal of an effect on turnout at all. we're hearing that turnout has been either a little higher than expected or a lot higher than expected. 445,000. that was the number of primary voters that showed up in 2008. far shy of the record in 2008. organizers for the republican party here in the states say they're expecting turntout to be somewhere between 450, 475,000 primary voters. turnout, pretty good right now. especially in the upstate, that's where ne
mac. >> i would like to see what he sold freddie mac. we have washington insiders talking about freddie mac, what he said, what advise he gave them. >> nbc's craig melvin joins us live from columbia, south carolina. it's not raining anymore, craig. but you had a lot of people concerned about the turnout related to the showers. we heard a short time ago there's a tornado warning in effect. what impact is that having, if any on the vote today? >> the tornado watch was in effect...
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. >> freddie mac was provided by the lobbyist of freddie mac. i don't think we can possibly retake the white house if the person who is leading our party is the person work iing for the chief lobbyist of freddie mac. >> he went on and on and on making all sorts of allegations. first of all, he may be good at financials. >> that first clip we showed was the first thing out of newt gingrich's mouth. i'm not going to spend time addressing these things. that was a strategy. that's what they decided to do. he decided he was going to try to float above mitt romney. they knew romney was going to come in aggressive. they made a decision he wasn't going to be the newt gingrich from south carolina. the audience wasn't involved. that made him even more different from what we saw. but they made a decision they wanted to adopt the front runner. he was going to be big and not punching down. >> will the monogoose beat the cobra? >> i think he will be back. >> we'll enjoy that. thank you, john ralston. up next, jfk in his own voice. a final batch of audio tapes
. >> freddie mac was provided by the lobbyist of freddie mac. i don't think we can possibly retake the white house if the person who is leading our party is the person work iing for the chief lobbyist of freddie mac. >> he went on and on and on making all sorts of allegations. first of all, he may be good at financials. >> that first clip we showed was the first thing out of newt gingrich's mouth. i'm not going to spend time addressing these things. that was a strategy. that's...
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going after the ties to freddie mac. let's watch. >> while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich catched in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the agency that helped create the crisis. >> i offered advice. >> an historian? really? sanctioned for ethics, he resigned from congress in disgrace. if newt wins, this guy would be very happy. >> this is ultimate fighting. >> that's their best argument. that's the romney's campaign. it's not that newt isn't a conservative. >> they are calling him a crook. >> they very cleverly cut in the fact he had the ethics violation and left congress with fannie mae and freddie mac. >> okay. >> that can cut down here. >> it can because of the foreclosure. but again, it doesn't deal with the romney problem. and ultimately, that's the issue. he has a message problem. >> who do you want fighting obama? chuck todd and howard fineman, thank you. you can watch the debate tonight at 9:00 eastern with brian williams. the big fight on nbc. coming up, the base is re
going after the ties to freddie mac. let's watch. >> while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich catched in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the agency that helped create the crisis. >> i offered advice. >> an historian? really? sanctioned for ethics, he resigned from congress in disgrace. if newt wins, this guy would be very happy. >> this is ultimate fighting. >> that's their best argument. that's the romney's campaign. it's...
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you have investments through mu chul funds that invest in freddie mac. >> romney does have investments in fanny and freddie. he's got so much money, he can't count it. we know mitt is a money man. where is newt, the idea man, the guy who wants to put the 51st state on the moon. if not for president gingrich, the chinese might kcolonyize th moon first. >> i do not want to have gotten there first, saying it doesn't matter. >> i spent 25 years in business. if i had a business executive come to me and say they want to spend a few billion dollars on the moon, i'd say you're fired. >> that must have felt good. we know how mitt likes to fire people. let's bring in our political panel. karen finney, dana millbank. karen, let me start with you. i have this sink feeling that newt gingrich could be sink beneath his own weight here. what happened to the newt-tron bomb. did it self-imploed in florida? >> i think it did. we're seeing what's been newt's problem all along. he does worse when he's better. when he's doing well, he can't stand it and he lets his guard down and starts talking about coloni
you have investments through mu chul funds that invest in freddie mac. >> romney does have investments in fanny and freddie. he's got so much money, he can't count it. we know mitt is a money man. where is newt, the idea man, the guy who wants to put the 51st state on the moon. if not for president gingrich, the chinese might kcolonyize th moon first. >> i do not want to have gotten there first, saying it doesn't matter. >> i spent 25 years in business. if i had a business...
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romney made it crystal collar freddie mac was not going to go away. will his ties to freddie mac be ultimately gingrich's achilles heel in nevada as it has to some extent been in florida? >> possibly because you cannot overstate how important the housing collapse is in nevada. nevada and florida are perfect bookends if you want examples of the worst examples of the housing collapse. nevada, he's already had some advertising by the nevada paper. so far he hasn't bought anything. there are a few days left. romney and the super pac had some effective ads running. newt gingrich has to figure out a better answer for what he did for the company other than being a historian. >> right. nobody seems to accept that. >> he was not in the contract. >> of course, absolutely. where will newt's resources come from if he loses tonight by more than ten have to point out, i saw an unbelievable stat related to that that 92% of the advertising dollars spent in florida were for negative ads. 92%, which i just find shocking. the big question is sheldon adelson or another o
romney made it crystal collar freddie mac was not going to go away. will his ties to freddie mac be ultimately gingrich's achilles heel in nevada as it has to some extent been in florida? >> possibly because you cannot overstate how important the housing collapse is in nevada. nevada and florida are perfect bookends if you want examples of the worst examples of the housing collapse. nevada, he's already had some advertising by the nevada paper. so far he hasn't bought anything. there are...
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one of his chief strategies will be to equity newt gingrich to freddie mac. in a place like florida when a quarter of the homes are in foreclosure, how concerned of you with that having an impact? >> as we have seen from mitt romney, is now 4 and 19 in elections. as we have seen consistently from mitt romney, he attacks people on the issues he's just as weak, if not weaker on. back in september his own newspaper ran a piece about him being involved in hundreds of, a small fortune in investments pertaining to fanny and freddie. i'm confident he will expose these things. i think romney is in the position in florida that newt was in in south carolina. if romney loses this, he will not be the republican nominee. >> we'll see the clip and play it back in a few weeks. i want to play a piece of sound. this is the santorum exchange from two days ago. i want to talk to you guys on the other side about something. take a listen. >> i never refer to obama as president obama because legally he is not. why isn't something being done to get him out our government? he has no
one of his chief strategies will be to equity newt gingrich to freddie mac. in a place like florida when a quarter of the homes are in foreclosure, how concerned of you with that having an impact? >> as we have seen from mitt romney, is now 4 and 19 in elections. as we have seen consistently from mitt romney, he attacks people on the issues he's just as weak, if not weaker on. back in september his own newspaper ran a piece about him being involved in hundreds of, a small fortune in...
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mac. >> i thought that bit about the chief lobbiest, was romney's chief line of attack. >> $1.6 is million is change for him. i thought romney was aggressive, but i think the challenge for him is he really has to change the dynamics of the race and he did not have one particular moment that will repeat day after day, and a lot of good hits but he did not have that john king moment where you could see the entire audience with him. so, i think the question is whether he reversed momentum and i did not see it tonight. >> not having a blood thirsty crowd did not help. >> it was the nature of romney and his campaign which is run by an old opposition research guy. he is ticking through things that are wrong with newt, but it's a list. he is not able to focus on a i critique. >> the way that newt can drop things, romney doesn't have that, it was a back and forth, one step two step thing. >> gingrich can drop a bit of historical stuff but some of it is true and some not. he anticipated getting hit
mac. >> i thought that bit about the chief lobbiest, was romney's chief line of attack. >> $1.6 is million is change for him. i thought romney was aggressive, but i think the challenge for him is he really has to change the dynamics of the race and he did not have one particular moment that will repeat day after day, and a lot of good hits but he did not have that john king moment where you could see the entire audience with him. so, i think the question is whether he reversed...
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i'll show you a bit of one, that hits him right over the head with the freddie mac issue. this is the new ad that just went up in florida, this is from the romney campaign. this is not the behind the scenes subpoescene s -- >> gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the agency that helped concre helped create the crisis. >> if newt wins this guy would be very happy. >> how effective is that going to be, joe? >> that is a very effective ad. again, you look at florida, it's these 30 second spots that win the day for candidates statewide that they run over and over again. and the fact is that this housing collapse has absolutely devastated florida's economy. you look not only at the ral realtors you look at the entire industry that helped fuel a remarkable rise in the economy of the bush years. when the cash came, it hit everyone. unemployment hovering around 10%, that is a devastating ad and it's devastating if mitt can get newt lined up with bill clinton on what the meaning of "is" is. newt can say what he wants he was paid over a million, and every voter in the state of flo
i'll show you a bit of one, that hits him right over the head with the freddie mac issue. this is the new ad that just went up in florida, this is from the romney campaign. this is not the behind the scenes subpoescene s -- >> gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the agency that helped concre helped create the crisis. >> if newt wins this guy would be very happy. >> how effective is that going to be, joe? >> that is a very effective ad. again, you look at florida, it's...